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From: bianco@cs.odu.edu (David J. Bianco)
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Subject: Re: send-mail (what does it do?)
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Date: 7 Mar 91 03:43:09 GMT
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In article <1991Mar06.213014.25601@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> gatesl@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Lee Gates) writes:

   While monitoring my processes one day, I noticed that ps reported that I was
   running a process called send-mail.  I am familiar with sendmail and unix,
   so I sought after the man pages... even grepped all the man pages for the
   string send-mail.  I would like to know what part of sendmail send-mail does.

Well, if I remember right, sendmail actually changes it's
argv[0] to indicate what its status is.  Perhaps send-mail
is the status for when it's running as a daemon?

	David Bianco